The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-11-16
What Becomes OF MilliOnaires' Cast OF
Clothes.

Millionaires don't, as a rule, dress
IuXuriantly. Most of them dress well
and few delight in affecting a tramp
like appearance. Conspicuous among
this latter class is the English million
aire Duke of Norfolk. So shabby is
his general get-up that people who
don't know him pity him as a poor, de-
luded crank when he introduces him.
self as duke. Several times of late
he has been mistaken by his own keep
ers for poacher and chased with
shotgun off the big North of England
estates he owns but seldom visits.
Jay Gould is millionaire who
doesn't pay much attention to his per-
sonal appearance.
George Gould, on the contrary, is
what his London friends call "swag
ger man." He dresses well, at times
even flashily. AS yet Gould, junior,
has not reached that perfection in the
dressing art claimed by Evander Berry
Bell. Gould has never been known to
wear more than three suits day, in
Guiding, of course, the orthodox even
ing dress, whereas Wall boastfully adj
mits having sported five.
George Gould intrusts the DISPOSE
ton of all cast-off clothes to his excel
lent wife. She has a little clientele
of supers who once admired Edith
Kingdom from the wings. These and
young colored footman are, so to speak,
the crows that disport themselves i'll
George Gould's cast-off feathers.
Berry Wallis discarded wardrobe
falls to his elegant English valet. Time
was when the Wallets perquisite in this
direction was worth more to him than
twice his weekly salary. Berry's coats
were seldom soiled and never creased,
SO the English gentleman used to do
thriving business with the proprietor
of a big uptown misfit clothing estab-
lishment. But latterly things have
changed. Americas only true apostle
of dress is losing some of his old ell
thusiaSm, ana the valet views the fact
with alarm.
G. Il. Huntingdon dresses very
plainly. The once black Prince Albeit
that hangs loosely about his shoulders
is literally approaching Il green old age.
Mr.. Huntington wears his trousers a
little short and generally buys them
ready made. Twenty-Five cent black
flat neckties are his specially. 1t has
long since been a matter of debate
what Mr.. Huntingdon does with his
old clothes. Indeed, they are as sell
dom old in his estimation that genera
tions Of servants are likely to come and
go before a member of one of them
will be able to solve the mystery.
William Waldorf Astor wears ele-
CANT clothes. Once a coat becomes
creased or pair of pants even slightly
bagged at the knees he hands it over to
his butler. The recipient is not sup
posed to wear the article but to trade
it to the best advantage.
In Tipperary there is an old man
named Considine, who on all great ma
tional festivals turns out in an olive
green coat that once covered Daniel
O'Connell's massive back, In big
country north of the States there is
another great patriot who emulates
Tipperary Considine. William III.
Vanderbilt was his hero, and so com.
plete became the fascination that when
the great patriot took his walks abroad
people would wink at one another and
guess they knew where old man Van
derbilt's cast-off clothes went.
DuI lliie TOllcu OllN 1904 dpprodcheu.
Billy Maloney, for he was the great
patriot, had now enriched himself by
manly and ingenious modes of accumu-
lation, known only to aldermanic
boards. His worship would now be
constant and more worthy of its OBJ
ject When William III. turned out in
a new suit Billy did the same. Nor
was the slightest modification of form
or color disregarded. Henceforward
twin suits covered the two.-Ne,c York
Journal.